Example sentences of "from time to time [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presentments for breaches of these purlieu laws were from time to time made at the Essex swanimotes in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries . |
| 2 | Timothy , although a regular caller , had n't mentioned the alternative to Yelton again , but the way he looked at her from time to time made words unnecessary . |
| 3 | ‘ Exports of imitation Stolichnaya are from time to time made from other regions of the former USSR , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Prime Minister William Gladstone is another well-known figure whose speeches have been ‘ discovered ’ from time to time recorded on cylinders . |
| 5 | Similarly the seller under a contract of sale might undertake to use best endeavours to deliver the goods on time : The Sellers will use their best endeavours to secure delivery of the goods on the estimated delivery dates from time to time furnished , but they do not guarantee time of delivery . |
| 6 | The curious , at times seemingly perverse , ambiguity in which the terms of the contract are from time to time expressed is an added reason why no one who has to wrestle with the problems which abound in this area should fail to arm himself with this book . |
| 7 | AT3 had experienced great difficulty in finding a job in teaching and from time to time expressed thankfulness for the one he had now . |
| 8 | All such rights , powers , liabilities , obligations and restrictions from time to time created or arising by or under the Treaties , and all such remedies and procedures from time to time provided for by or under the Treaties , as in accordance with the Treaties are without further enactment to be given legal effect or used in the United Kingdom shall be recognised and available in law , and be enforced , allowed and followed accordingly : and the expression ‘ enforceable Community right ’ and similar expressions shall be read as referring to one to which this subsection applies . |
| 9 | ‘ All such rights , powers , liabilities , obligations and restrictions from time to time created or arising by or under the Treaties , and all such remedies and procedures from time to time provided for by or under the Treaties , as in accordance with the Treaties are without further enactment to be given legal effect or used in the United Kingdom shall be recognised and available in law , and be enforced , allowed and followed accordingly . ’ |
| 10 | She had already from time to time employed Mrs Rafferty , although the incredibly swift rate of her pregnancies made her appearances at Four Winds unpredictable . |
| 11 | Northern coal miners observed a long Christmas break and from time to time proclaimed " gaudy days " on such occasions as hearing the first cuckoo . |
| 12 | The Chancery , i.e. the Chancellor 's office , has a power ( Statute of Westminster II 1285 ) of framing new writs in cansimili casu — i.e. to meet new cases sufficiently like those for which writs already exist — and new writs are from time to time framed . |
| 13 | 3.8.2 with effect from the Possession Date pay and indemnify the Landlord against all rates taxes assessments duties charges impositions and outgoings from time to time charged upon the Premises or the owner or occupier of them Although unlikely to have such a constriction placed on it , there is something to be said for inserting a similar exclusion into this clause to that inserted in clause 5.2.1 of the lease . |
| 14 | That is why soldiers called Metaxas and Papadopoulos have from time to time felt obliged to step forward and try a spot of military dictatorship . |
| 15 | Other wardens were from time to time granted leave by Henry III to postpone their accounts at the Exchequer , and he remitted the debts of others . |
| 16 | Indeed , in the training industry the acronym CBT meaning ‘ computer based training ’ is from time to time reinterpreted to mean ‘ computer based trouble ’ . |
| 17 | Political events from time to time touched peasants directly : war and external attack harmed their lands and families , while Charles the Bald 's fiscal demands affected all levels of the peasant work-force at least on royal and ecclesiastical estates . |
| 18 | I then zealous to understand I I er , er , erm sought it Statutes , Volume thirty-three nineteen ninety three edition and studied most carefully pages six hundred and seventy-five to six hundred and seventy-seven and there I found an account of what has happened to Sections two and three and also for the first time light was shed upon Section two A. My Lords , I have from time to time ventured to express some doubt as to whether our legislative procedures were as excellent , as I 'm sure Your Lordships would wish them to be and when I recently suggested in the most mild terms to Her Majesty 's Government that they might consider some form of enquiry into our legislative procedures to see whether as they were as high class as they should be , erm I was given a very negative reply the clear influence of which was that the our legislative procedures could not possibly be improved and My Lords I do really think with respect that that is a proposition which is open to doubt . |
| 19 | He shivered ceaselessly , eyes half closed , and from time to time swallowed with difficulty , trying to ease the collar round his neck . |
| 20 | But this issue has not been the subject of legislation , nor previously been considered by this court or the House of Lords , and in such circumstances the alternatives are either to dismiss the appeal despite the relevance of article 10 and wait for Parliament to reconsider the state of the law ; or , as the courts have from time to time demonstrated their ability and willingness to do , venture into relatively unchartered waters and declare the present state of the law . |
| 21 | They lit the candles they had brought and made their way along a passage which led out of the chamber , gazing wordlessly — he could n't remember that they had spoken at all while in there — at the arched limestone walls , at the tunnels that from time to time branched from this central artery , once into a wide gallery whose egress had been blocked by a fall of stone . |
| 22 | Hereditary wardenships , for example , were from time to time inherited by priests : in 1207 William of Wrotham , Archdeacon of Taunton , received from King John seisin of the lands he held in chief in Somerset , and the wardenship of the forests of Somerset and Exmoor in Devon . |
| 23 | Lessing was a man of many parts — writer , literary critic , historian , advocate of religious tolerance — who also made pioneering contributions to the study of the New Testament , and was from time to time embroiled in the continuing controversies between rationalism and orthodoxy . |
| 24 | " From below " , provincial churchmen in the various kingdoms from time to time demanded authoritative rulings , arbitration , and leadership , to maintain their churches ' own new-won institutional integrity , or to fight more particular battles involving the interests of ecclesiastical individuals or groups ; and lay persons sought the pope 's protection . |
| 25 | 142 ( 2 ) The obligation under a condition or of a covenant entered into by a lessor with reference to the subject-matter of the lease shall , if and as far as the lessor has power to bind the reversionary estate immediately expectant on the term granted by the lease , be annexed and incident to and shall go with that reversionary estate , or the several parts thereof , notwithstanding severance of that reversionary estate , and may be taken advantage of and enforced by the person in whom the term is from time to time vested by conveyance , devolution in law , or otherwise ; and , if and as far as the lessor has power to bind the person from time to time entitled to that reversionary estate , the obligation aforesaid may be taken advantage of and enforced against any person so entitled . |
| 26 | A few university colleagues … have from time to time shown some loss of nerve . |
| 27 | Special deposits are deposits of banks from time to time required by the Bank of England to be lodged in addition to normal reserve requirements . |
| 28 | The Kirgiz-Kaisaks ( Kazakhs ) , roaming in areas claimed by both sides , were in an uncomfortable position and from time to time paid fealty to both , meantime raiding on their own behalf and fighting amongst themselves . |
| 29 | For example : After payment of the Preference Dividend and the Preferred Dividend payable in respect of each financial year of the Company ( including any Arrears of the same ) the Company shall [ subject to provisions of clause … of the facility agreement ] pay to the Ordinary Shareholders out of the balance of any profits available for distribution a non-cumulative dividend of such amount as the Company shall determine ( but not exceeding the amount recommended by the Directors such recommendation to include the consent of the Investors ' Director ) on the capital from time to time paid up or credited as paid up on each Ordinary Share . |
| 30 | It was there as early as the thirteenth century , parts of it being from time to time rebuilt or embellished . |